Middle East Aggression

As each day goes by evidence accumulates that it was Israel that started the fighting in the Middle East, that this was done in collusion with the U.S, and the whole aim of the operation was to inflict a defeat on Arab nationalism, Apart from the evidence which has been compiled in press reports which we have quoted elsewhere in this issue, we have only to mention that most of Egypt's tanks were still painted green when the fighting started (showing that they had been rushed to the front); that the U.S. News and World Report correspondent in Israel reports that the U.A.R. forces had been taken off alert when Israel struck; and that the U.S. ship which was bombed was right at the point of battle, carrying out a "communications function" according to U.S. spokesmen, The Observer on Sunday, June llth, reported that the aim of the last attack made by Israel - on ‘*yria - had the aim of overthrowing the “Government of that country, something which this paper said at the beginning of the crisis, We have had at least one cancellation of subscription because of our stand. Ironically enough, much of the material which our former reader described as being worthy of Mosley was taken diranatly from The times, It is a great pity that the genuine sympathy for the Jewish people that all progressives hold has been so misused by the capitalist press. The left has a colossal job of education to do in relation to the Middle Hast, In the many crises which will come up in the coming months it is essential that socialists in this country respond to prevent further aggression,